Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.

Flannery O'Connor's Popular Quotes

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

- Flannery O'Connor

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

- Flannery O'Connor

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

- Flannery O'Connor

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

- Flannery O'Connor

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

- Flannery O'Connor

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of s…

- Flannery O'Connor

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

- Flannery O'Connor

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

- Flannery O'Connor

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

- Flannery O'Connor